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2693391, Is street cred important when listening to a rapper?
Posted by zuma1986, Tue May-01-12 09:30 PM
Ppl keep mentioning Cormega has street cred but is that really an issue when listening to music? Do you stop listening to somebody if their street cred is tarnished? Do you listen to somebody if they still got love from their hood?

Somebody posted that Tragedy doc a few weeks ago and in it ppl were complaining about Nas abandoned them but Tragedy still in it with them. It made me think, who cares? Do I expect Nas to hang out in one of the worst housing projects in the US when making millions of dollars? Does his music become more listenable if he did? I don't know why ppl are so fixated on it in terms of judging rappers, it has nothing to do with making a good song or the skill level of a rapper. Tons of the great rappers have little to no street cred and tons of rappers with street cred have little to no skills.